Philosophia et medicina duæ sorores sunt. Divulgación del escepticismo en fuentes médicas del Medioevo / Philosophia et medicina duæ sorores sunt. Divulgation of Scepticism in the Medical Sources of the Middle Ages

Abstract

At the beginning of the 17th century, a confluence between the sceptical tendency and the Latin Averroism is advised in the libertine movement of the classical age, so like Tommaso Campanella proclames. We try to explain in the present article why this was not possible in a previous time. Like the role played by the «Latin Galen» (we drop to analyze the translations of Niccolò da Reggio di Calabria during the first half of the 14th century), with its censure to the pyrrhonisme and the supposed, for him, contamination of the Hellenistic medical schools (empirical and methodical), in this process of delay.